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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1903
Page
6
Hendricks uses a retainer with a mysterious man Jebbs to uncover the ghostly mastermind behind bold robberies. The duo plots, while a black coupe and a shadowy street scene hint at a larger conspiracy as Job tails clues toward police headquarters and a hidden document.
Washington Post reports Chaplain Edward Wattman returning from the Philippines recounts meeting an elderly Irish mother whose son Patrick, a Washington private, was captured by guerrillas. The mother, seeking news, learns Patrick was strapped to a Filipino and taken into the mountains, prompting a pained plea for mercy.
A cryptic verse fragment contemplates failure and vain striving for greatness. It hints at a struggle for success, a desire to win, and moral tension between pursuit and potential wrongful gain, mentioning Montgomery and Ram's Horm in a distorted context.
The New York board of estimate and apportionment voted unanimously to create a park on the site between West 100th and 160th streets and Edgecounty Road and Jumel Terrace to acquire and preserve the Jumel mansion once used by General Washington as his headquarters.
An ad claims Dr Kline’s Great Nervous Cure can permanently cure fits with a free trial bottle offer. The piece also mentions University of Pennsylvania alcohol effects on blood bacteria and a polar expedition suit by the Duke of Abruzzi. It ends with a testimonial about Piso’s Cure for Consumption from Wakita, Oklahoma, dated April 17, 1001.
A 1900s Boston Herald item reports 1,900 people fed at a Winchester Miss town hall event by the Visiting Nurse association. The breakfast raised likely over $500 to fund an emergency hospital, with prominent locals helping and music from an orchestra.
Johnny and mamma discuss using kerosene oil to drive away mosquitos while Johnny questions why castor oil isn’t given, reflecting a domestic conversation about remedies. The dialogue hints at common folk beliefs and household practices of the era.
Chicago Tribune describes the federal government's vast typing workforce. From early morning to six, about 4,000 typists produce letters while 6,000 more work on other machines. Uncle Sam is portrayed as a generous employer, paying well and granting machine preferences. The piece also notes Liverpool docks and Britain's share of world commerce, with Britain manufacturing two thirds of a large sum in goods yearly.
Complete External and Internal. Treatment, One Dollar. In the treatment of torturing disfiguring humours of the skin and blood with loss of hair, Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills have been wonderfully successful. Even obstinate constitutional humours such as hair loss glandular swellings and ulcers yield to Cuticura. Infants and children with infantile humours milk crust eczema and rashes are speedily cured when other remedies fail. Global promotion lists Cuticura Resolvent Pills Soap and Mentions prices and distributors in London Boston and Chicago.
Advertisers are reminded to mention that their ad was seen in the Sioux City P'G O paper. Reference appears as Siou x City paper notation with a value of $87-26 from 1905.
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